Unions equalize social classes

The Sept. 11 edition of The Tennessean reported that "the gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s." The paper also noted that Sen. Bob Corker was "dismayed" that Volkswagen might allow the United Auto Workers to represent employees at its Chattanooga plant. Corker added that Volkswagen might "become a laughingstock ... if they inflict this wound."

The gap between the rich and the rest of us actually narrowed after World War II; much of the credit was given to unions who negotiated better pay and benefits for workers.

Are we now at a point in our evolution as a society when even the consideration of a union labels one a "laughingstock"? With the inequities already in place and growing worse between America's rich and the rest, I must now ask the multimillionaire Corker: What else do you find funny?

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Unions equalize social classes

The gap between the rich and the rest of us actually narrowed after World War II; much of the credit was given to unions who negotiated better pay and benefits for workers.